DEATH OF A KING; 2 Old Enemies Meet and Shake

King Hussein's funeral brought together sworn enemies today, including a Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilla leader who approached the President of Israel, praised him as a man of peace, and shook his hand.

The scene involved Nayef Hawatmeh, whose guerrillas commandeered an Israeli school in Maalot in 1974, and Ezer Weizman. Mr. Weizman's adviser, Arieh Shumer, who witnessed the handshake, said it was a random encounter.

''Nayef Hawatmeh approached the President and said, 'We know you as a man of peace,' '' Mr. Shumer told Israel army radio. '' 'You've been fighting for peace for the last 20 years,' ''

Mr. Weizman took Mr. Hawatmeh's outstretched hand and told him that the time had come to make peace with Syria and Lebanon. Mr. Hawatmeh's group, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, is based in Damascus, the Syrian capital.

Correction: February 10, 1999, Wednesday A brief report yesterday about an encounter that Nayef Hawatmeh, a leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, had with the President of Israel at King Hussein's funeral incompletely recounted one of the Palestinian's guerrilla activities. When his men commandeered a school in the Israeli village of Maalot in 1974, about two dozen Israelis were killed in the attack.